Garment-syand



(N0 Model.)

' W. H. KNAPP;

I GARMENT STAND. 4 I No. 288,452. :Patented Nov. 13', 1883-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

WILLIAM: H. KNAPP, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

GARMENT-STAND.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters I atent No. 288,452, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed June 11, 1883.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it'known that I. WM. H. KNAPP, of I New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have inventednew Improvements in Garment-Stands; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

struction hereinafter described, and more par-' ticularly recited in the claim.

The form is best made from wire, and is ar ranged upon'a central vertical post, A. The

-' form is divided into four vertical parts, the

division being from the neck downward and across the shoulder, and also centrally down the front and down the back, whereby four parts, B, C, D, and E, are produced. At the neck the vertical wires are brought into neckpieces, respectively, 12,0, d, and 6. Upon the inside, and below the neck-pieces, a collar, 1, is arrangedloose upon the vertical rod, and from n this four springs, h, extend upwardmbove the neck-pieces, their other ends connected to a corresponding collar, 2', and to the springs, about midway of their length, the neck-pieces are attached, as seen in Fig. 8. Centrally through the two ,collars a screw-rod, Z, is passed into a corresponding. nut, m, in the vertical post, and above the upper collar, 2', a

suitable head, it, is attached to the screw-rod, by which thatyrod may be turned so as to screw the rod Z down into the vertical post A,

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or unscrew it therefrom. The head it bears upon the upper collar, and hence, as it is screwed down into the post to practically contract its length, the collard is. forced downward toward the collar f. This causes the springs to throw outward at their center, andin such outward movement carry the neck pieces correspondingly outward, and expand the neck of the form, and because of the connection of the parts of the fOllll'iiO these neckpieces the form itself is correspondingly expanded, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 8. To reduce the size of the form, it is only necessary to withdraw the screw Z, when thesprings h return toward the straight positionand correspondingly drawin the neck-pieces and 0011- tract the form.

Instead of employing thin steel springs h,

as shown, the.connections between the two around the screw-rod between the two collars, which willbe compressed as the collar '5 is forced downward, and then as the screwis withdrawn the spring will react and force the collar upward to contract the form, as seen in Fig. 4. V

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, an eXpansible or adjustable form or stand for garments, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim- The combination of of the form, each part terminating in a corresponding neclepiece, b c d 6, vertical springs h, secured by one end to a col1ar,f, and the other end to a corresponding collar, 1;, both collars supported in a vertical central posi-' tion, and the neck -pieces attached to said springs midway between said two collars, and

the screw-rod Z through said collars, substantially as and for the purpose described.

I WM. H. KNAPP.

J os. O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

the four parts B C D E 

